Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

You can’t give what you don’t have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.